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From: "Jonas Maebe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "FPC-Pascal users discussions" <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] Best method to uninstall fpc and lazarus
On 02 Sep 2008, at 09:05, Paul wrote:
I want to uninstall and reinstall fpc and lazurus.
My current installation is useless.
I found the steps on Wiki, but I used the docs on Wiki to install them
and it totally went wrong.
The uninstall steps on the wiki at
http://wiki.freepascal.org/OS_X_Programming_Tips#Uninstalling_Lazarus_and_Free_Pascal
are correct. I just went over them and changed them so they are by
default for FPC 2.2.2. Make sure you also remove the .lazarus directory
in your home directory as described at the end. I guess most of your
problems are related to that one in fact.
When you install next time, I would recommend not to install Lazarus
0.9.24 first and to go directly with 0.9.25. As for FPC itself, please
use the official installer from http://www.freepascal.org and not the one
from http://www.hu.freepascal.org/lazarus, because I believe that at one
point in time the latter did not create a default FPC configuration file
(I don't know whether this has been fixed in the mean time).
This means that it only works (worked) if you previously already
installed an FPC release and did not remove its configuration file (but
you will remove it by performing the uninstallation steps above). The
reason is that FPC configuration files are most of the time compatible
between different versions, because all paths include variables which are
replaced with the currently used FPC version.
It's no problem to use the fpcsrc package from that page (or to install
the fpc-2.2.2 package from that page over an existing install of FPC).
Jonas
PS: uninstalling stuff uninstalled using the default Mac OS X installer
/is/ unnecessarily hard and non-intuitive at this point. I have no idea
why after all this time Apple still have not added a simple uninstall
option. The only upside to this is that developers shy away as much as
possible from using an installer, and instead opt (where possible) for
drag-n-drop installations (whereby "uninstall" is reduced to "delete this
folder").
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